How can I display only different rows using diff in a separate file?
For example, the file number 1 contains the line:
1;john;125;3 1;tom;56;2 2;jack;10;5
A file number 2 contains the following lines:
1;john;125;3 1;tom;58;2 2;jack;10;5
How to make in the following happen?
1;tom;58;2
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Answer
a.txt:
1;john;125;3 1;tom;56;2 2;jack;10;5
b.txt:
1;john;125;3 1;tom;58;2 2;jack;10;5
Use comm:
comm -13 a.txt b.txt 1;tom;58;2
The command line options to comm
are pretty straight-forward:
-1 suppress column 1 (lines unique to FILE1)
-2 suppress column 2 (lines unique to FILE2)
-3 suppress column 3 (lines that appear in both files)